Category: History Publisher: AuthorHouse
Pages: 162
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-13: 9781434384164
A historical account of the Panamanian isthmus from AD 1501 to AD 1903, when the Revolution of November 3, 1903 brought about independence and the birth of the youngest American republic, making possible the final creation of the Panama Canal.
Excerpt
For almost one hundred years, the lock canal splitting the Isthmus of Panama into two parts of the same country has provided maritime vessels of all types and sizes (except those too large to enter it) with the means of moving quickly and easily from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and vice versa. Prior to the existence of the Panama Canal, western ships of war and commerce were forced to travel around Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic and return to their homeports...In 1898, the United States went to war with Spain over the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine...The U.S.S. Wisconsin...ordered to sail from her Pacific port to the East Coast...had to sail around Cape Horn and arrived at her assignment after the Spanish-American War was concluded. This incident raised national security concerns in Washington, D.C., and provided great impetus in Central America...
The Panama Canal was eventually completed by the United States and the [recently established] Republic of Panama...(and) opened for maritime transit on August 15, 1914...Oddly enough, the first warship to transit the canal was...Peruvian...not American....
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